Chapter 304 Nasa’s biological son and godson

Across the ocean, on the European continent.

The morning sun rises slowly, bathing this romantic city - Paris.

This city has the world-famous Lafayette Tower, the Louvre and Notre Dame de Paris, and of course the famous local football team Paris Saint-Germain.

but.

What many people don’t know is that the European Space Agency’s headquarters is also located here.

Within the European Space Agency.

At this time, Director Mu, who is in charge of the satellite business of the European Space Agency, is browsing the latest satellite information from around the world in his office. This is one of his daily tasks.

After a while, the phone suddenly rang on the desk filled with documents.

He glanced at the caller ID subconsciously and let out a soft sigh of surprise.

The caller ID turned out to be a call from the satellite department office of Airbus.

Unlike most people’s perception of Airbus, Airbus is indeed a well-known civil aviation aircraft manufacturer, with aircraft such as the Airbus-380.

but.

At the same time, Airbus is also a satellite manufacturer.

Including the world's leading communications WeChat T-16, remote sensing satellite SPOT-5, and the most famous European "Galileo navigation and positioning satellite" are all designed and produced by Airbus.

Not only that.

Airbus also provides launch vehicle production, spacecraft manufacturing, lunar exploration vehicles and other space instrument services to the European Space Agency, the French Space Agency and other European space agencies!

It’s just that the development of European launch vehicles has always been very slow.

Thinking of this, Director Mu was slightly startled. Recently, the space agency and Airbus have not had any satellite business dealings. What's going on with the sudden call?

After a while, he picked up the phone.

"Hello, Director Mu, I'm Jerry, Jerry Rams from the Airbus Satellite Division."

Jerry's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Jerry, I haven't seen you for a long time. Why did you suddenly remember to call me today?"

"Director Mu, we just received the latest news from Yan Kingdom..."

"From the Yan Kingdom?"

Director Mu of the European Space Agency was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile:

"Jerry, you don't want to tell me about any new developments in Yanguo's new passenger aircraft C919, do you?"

"Sorry, you dialed the wrong number. This is the satellite department, not the civil aviation department, and I suggest you call the French Space Agency or the Ministry of Commerce more appropriately..."

Jerry could hear the joke in Director Tom's words.

Recently, as Yanguo's self-produced C919 narrow-body passenger aircraft continues to make new progress, Airbus is still feeling a bit of pressure within the company, and many aerospace employees discuss this matter from time to time.

"Director Mu, what I want to say is not a commercial airliner, but..."

"Let's do this. I'll send the message to your email. Take a quick look. You'll be surprised."

After hanging up the phone, Director Mu shook his head and didn't quite believe what Jerry said.

but.

Out of curiosity, he opened the mailbox immediately...

When he opened his mailbox and glanced at the contents of the mailbox attachment, his expression suddenly changed.

"7nm, aerospace-grade AI computing power chip?!"

"'Onboard AI intelligent processing platform'?"

Director Mu's eyes widened, and his first reaction was that it was impossible!

As the head of the satellite department of the European Space Agency, he browses satellite technical information from around the world almost every week. He knows a lot about space satellite chips!

The current situation in the entire industry is that almost all aerospace-grade chips are between 45 nanometers and 90 nanometers. You...?

7nm?!

And when he continued to look down, he suddenly felt numb.

Good guy.

Global sale of Earth remote sensing satellite data…

and.

Are you still accepting global commercial satellite orders?

Director Mu was a little panicked. You must know that the current global commercial aerospace landscape is roughly divided into two businesses.

One is a satellite manufacturing and ground equipment service provider, and the other is rocket launch.

Among them, the rocket launch business has taken the world by storm because of the emergence of SpaceX at extremely low prices. As a result, all orders from global commercial satellite companies have fallen into the hands of SpaceX.

Regardless of whether it is Mao Xiong, Yan Country or Europe, they basically have no chance to drink soup.

Europe, as the second largest market in terms of commercial aerospace development output, has always had a pretty good satellite manufacturing industry. However, seeing that the launch vehicle was completely snatched away by Aramco, European commercial aerospace is now looking at the satellite manufacturing business to make money and develop.

Unexpectedly.

This Yanguo company, which suddenly emerged, was the first to develop a 7-nanometer aerospace-grade chip and an ‘on-board AI intelligent processing platform’?

Good guy.

Accepting global commercial satellite orders? To put it harshly, this is just to grab jobs!

Which company in Yan State is so awesome?

Aerospace Group?!

hiss……!

When Director Mu continued to look down, his eyes were suddenly attracted by the name "Phoenix Group".

Why does this company look familiar?

After a moment, something suddenly came to his mind.

Isn't Phoenix Group the same company that participated in the Frankfurt Auto Show some time ago and brought a new energy electric sports car and an autonomous self-driving bus?

At that time, their "unmanned self-driving buses" also aroused the interest of many people.

Moreover, there has been a lot of news recently about them secretly providing a large number of high-end chips to the Bear Country...

wrong.

Thinking of this, Director Mu reacted.

Phoenix Group?

After a while, he quickly opened his chat software and searched the chat history based on his memory. His mouth opened wide in disbelief!

Damn it!

Two or three months ago, a Chinese company came to the French Space Agency and expressed the hope of renting a SPOT-5 remote sensing satellite to obtain satellite data. At that time, the French Space Agency directly offered $200 million a year!

After Yanguo Enterprise refused, people from the French Space Agency laughed at the company for being played by them when talking about it.

Oh my God, if I read it correctly, the company that was seeking rent at that time was called Phoenix Group!

Director Mu felt panicked, TMD.

Two or three months ago, I was begging people to rent satellites in a low voice. In the blink of an eye, I sent remote sensing satellites to the sky, and also developed "7-nanometer aerospace-grade chips" and AI smart satellites?!

???

Even the world-renowned SpaecX company doesn’t have such efficiency, right?

"Those idiots at the French Space Agency, if they had rented satellites to them at that time, maybe they would not have developed satellites at all!"

"This is completely for no reason to find a competitor for yourself!"

In anger, Director Mu cursed loudly, and after venting his anger, he quickly dialed the phone on his desk.

"Secretary, collect all the information about this Yanguo Satellite Company for me immediately. I want all their information!"

"By the way, I will send you an email right away. You should forward it to the CEOs of all our satellite commercial companies immediately, asking them to find ways to understand all the situations of this Yanguo company!"

…

After the explosive appearance of the Phoenix satellite's "7-nanometer aerospace-grade chip", not only did the European Space Agency immediately capture this news, Aramco also quickly received similar news.

but.

Unlike the nervous director of the European Space Agency, Mr. David, the chairman of Aramco's "Commercial Aerospace Development Alliance" and the boss of Boeing, did not appear particularly excited.

Because his thoughts recently have been focused on the next-generation moon landing rocket SLS, which will be launched on the 29th of this month.

At this point, we have to talk about the old history of Boeing, Nasa and the Aramco military.
To be continued...